Horms wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 04:38:05PM +0000, Greg Kochanski wrote:Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Version: 2.6.8-12 Severity: important Load average is reported very high, but it ain't so. $ cat /proc/loadavg 52.80 51.80 50.81 4/202 8431 $ The system is currently unloaded and quite responsive. The real load average is clearly less than 2, and from looking at top, the load average is probably about 0.1 .In Bug#29285 you report that you have processes hung while accessing the filesystem. I would strongly suspect that is related to this load.
Possibly, but those processes were showing zero CPU, as displayed by "top". The system was also far too responsive to be heavily loaded in reality.
This is breaking my mail; exim4 is configured on my system to refrain from delivering or accepting mail when the load average is too high.I suspect that this load average is a symtom of some breakage, not a cause.
The load average is a direct cause of exim4's breakage, because it was configured to stop accepting mail when the load average was too high. What caused the bad load average, I don't know. Previous to the high load average, I had been trying to mount a SCSI disk over USB.